"cawer" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1817 April 17, John Keats, letter to J. H. Reynolds, number 22, quoted in 2012, Hyder Edward Rollins, The Letters of John Keats: Volume 1, 1814-1818: 1814-1821, Cambridge University Press, page 131",
          "text": "The Keep within side … a Co(l)lony of Jackdaws have been there many years—I dare say I have seen many a descendant of some old cawer who peeped through the Bars at Charles the first, when he was there in Confinement."
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          "ref": "1826, George Wood (Captain, 82nd Regiment), The Rambles of Redbury Rook, page 2",
          "text": "[…] melodious choir of young cawers; for be it known that we birds, as well as […]"
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          "ref": "1841, J. W. Gibbs, “Art. VI.—Origin of the Names of Beasts, Birds, and Insects”, in The American Journal of Science, page 32:",
          "text": "Chough, (Anglo-Sax. ceo, Fr. choucas and chouette;) from the root of Eng. to caw or to haw; as if the cawer or hawer.",
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          "ref": "1853, \"Falconry\" [from the New Monthly Magazine], in The Living Age, page 275",
          "text": "As we plunge through the last bushes which separate us from the hawk, twenty cawers rise flurriedly from the ground; […]"
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          "ref": "1919 June, The Game Breeder and Sportsman, volume 15, number 3; page 84 of the compiled volumes 14-15",
          "text": "A decoy owl mounted on a pole in connection with some good hooting or cawing surely will keep the guns hot in a place where crows ar abundant. This combination easily should win a Du Pont crow price. Sauter, the New York taxidermist, makes and sells the decoy owl; a little practice will make a good hooter or cawer."
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        "One who caws, such as or like a bird."
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          "ref": "1817 April 17, John Keats, letter to J. H. Reynolds, number 22, quoted in 2012, Hyder Edward Rollins, The Letters of John Keats: Volume 1, 1814-1818: 1814-1821, Cambridge University Press, page 131",
          "text": "The Keep within side … a Co(l)lony of Jackdaws have been there many years—I dare say I have seen many a descendant of some old cawer who peeped through the Bars at Charles the first, when he was there in Confinement."
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